Kano — Ahead of the third round of the Kano mass wedding, the Hisbah Board in the state yesterday started screening couples.
Our correspondent, who visited the venue of the exercise, gathered
that about eight persons among the prospective couples have so far
tested positive to HIV, while some women who came to seek spouses were
found to be pregnant.
On why they applied for the marriage despite their conditions, a
woman who gave her name simply as Umma said that she was not aware that
she was still pregnant as she had earlier gone for an abortion.
“I was shocked when I tested positive because I thought I had aborted
the pregnancy. It is an act of God,” She said.The Assistant Commandant
General, Women wing of Hisbah, Zahra’u Muhammd told Daily Trust that
anyone who is found to be HIV positive or pregnant would not be a
beneficiary of this mass wedding programme.
“We cannot go ahead with marriage arrangement for HIV carriers, we
are not advocating for spread of the virus. What we normally do in this
case is to advise the woman or the man to wait patiently until we get
partners for them who are HIV carriers too. During the second batch of
the mass wedding, we married off a man and woman who are HIV carriers
and they are now blessed with a child,” she said.She added that the
board will replace the HIV carriers and pregnant women with stand by
applicants.
“You know we have more than 1,000 women who applied for the marriage,
so we will replace those HIV carriers and pregnant women with those
stand by women who are ready to get married at anytime. We will marry
off 1000 women on Sunday insha Allah,” she said.
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